A Moorhead property owner who received nothing when his land was taken through eminent domain and was ordered to pay $475,000 in damages for contaminating neighboring properties is entitled to a new trial, the Minnesota Supreme Court has ruled.

The $52 million settlement between victims of the 2007 Interstate-35W bridge collapse and engineering giant URS Corp. announced this week was just the latest chapter in a legal battle like none other the state has ever seen.

It's a cliché of the legal profession that contracts are made to be broken, but a recent case involving St. Jude Medical, Inc., and its former group president, Joseph McCullough, shows that contracts are made to be enforced.